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...director who loved film so recklessly and, in his first pass at the mechanical muse, conquered her. But Welles left a monument no one can chip away. As the documentary notes, "There is only one winner in the story of Citizen Kane, and that's the film...In its 55th year, the movie is still a marvel, a circus of camera wizardry enlivening the story of a failure: a powerful man who loses it all. The young Welles did more than anticipate, somehow, his disappointment and decline. Through Kane he revealed how we all, as we age, become smudged parodies...
...patience will be rewarded. Frazier picks up momentum when he hits the 19th century. By that time his forebears were living in Ohio. Several of them joined the 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry to fight Confederates in the Civil War. They saw action in two notable Union defeats, the battles of Second Bull Run and Chancellorsville, and survived. Some of the best passages in Family occur when Frazier follows, in a rented car, the marches undertaken by the 55th and tries to take himself back in time. Usually he succeeds, and when he fails he still shows his familiar flair...
Bone's goal made the score 2-1 in the 55th minute, and Harvard never really looked in the game again...
Lauren oversees his empire and its 1,000 employees in a ten-floor warren of offices that occupy a narrow, prewar building on Manhattan's West 55th Street, about 15 blocks north of the hectic garment district. The decor of Lauren's headquarters suggests the backstage of a theater: cramped and slightly eccentric, with forest green walls and a bowl of M&M's on a table in the reception room. Lauren's personal office contains some of his favorite props: a wood-burning fireplace, a fleet of toy racing cars, family photographs and piles of fabric swatches. He often...
...greatest athlete ounce for ounce in the history of sport rode in and out with courage and cunning last week to grasp his fourth Kentucky Derby in his 24th try and his 55th year. Churchill Downs politely applauded the long shot Ferdinand but wildly cheered his passenger, and maybe for the first time in 112 years roses seemed inadequate. Nearly 30 springs after misjudging the finish line on Gallant Man and losing by a nostril to Iron Liege, Willie Shoemaker won the Derby again...